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  • Pidyon Haben is a rite of passage in Judaism that is known as ‘the redemption of the first born son’. It takes place when a baby is at least 31 days old, and involves ‘buying him back from a Cohen.’ Here the baby is draped in gold by the mother, grandmother and family and then bought back from a Cohen for 5 pieces of silver. The baby has to be the first boy who has opened his mother’s womb and not have been delivered by a caesarean birth.
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  • Pidyon Haben is a rite of passage in Judaism that is known as ‘the redemption of the first born son’. It takes place when a baby is at least 31 days old, and involves ‘buying him back from a Cohen.’ Here the baby is draped in gold by the mother, grandmother and family and then bought back from a Cohen for 5 pieces of silver. The baby has to be the first boy who has opened his mother’s womb and not have been delivered by a caesarean birth.
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  • Pidyon Haben is a rite of passage in Judaism that is known as 'the redemption of the first born son'. It takes place when a baby is at least 31 days old, and involves 'buying him back from a Cohen.' Here the baby is draped in gold by the mother, grandmother and family and then bought back from a Cohen for 5 pieces of silver. The baby has to be the first boy who has opened his mother's womb and not have been delivered by a caesarean birth.
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  • Two Orthodox Jewish men praying from the same prayer book in Springfield park, Stamford Hill, to celebrate the festival of Birkat Hachama (Blessing of the Sun).  It is a Jewish blessing that is recited in appreciation of the Sun once every twenty-eight years, when the vernal equinox as calculated by tradition falls on a Tuesday at sundown. Jewish tradition says that when the Sun completes this cycle, it has returned to its position when the world was created. According to Judaism, the Sun has a 28 year solar cycle known as machzor gadol
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  • Hundreds of Orthodox Jews gathered today (8th of April 2009) in Springfield park, Stamford Hill, to celebrate the festival of Birkat Hachama (blessing of the sun).  It is a Jewish blessing that is recited in appreciation of the Sun once every twenty-eight years, when the vernal equinox as calculated by tradition falls on a Tuesday at sundown. Jewish tradition says that when the Sun completes this cycle, it has returned to its position when the world was created. According to Judaism, the Sun has a 28 year solar cycle known as machzor gadol
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  • A Jewish wedding in Jerusalem
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  • Orthodox Jews from Stamford Hill pray outside the tomb of Rabbi Shulem Moshkovitz, The Shotzer Rebbe who is buried in the Adath Yisroel cemetery, Enfield. Before his death in 1958 (5718 Jewish years) he promised to help everyone who attended his tomb on a Friday morning and lit 3 candles.  It is thought by people in the local community that thousands have had spiritual help after lighting candles and praying here. On Friday the 12th of January 2007 it was the anniversary of his death, hundreds of people turned up to light candles, place them on his tomb and pray.
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  • After the funeral of Rabbi Josef Dunner who died on the 1st of April 2007 hundreds of people follow the car carrying the coffin on its way to the cemetery.  Rabbi Dunner was one of the last German Jewish Orthodox Rabbis ordained before the holocaust and well respected within the local community.
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  • Orthodox Jewish teenage boys playing in the street with a replica hand gun. As one pretends to shoot his friend in the chest the other acts as if he has been shot.
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  • Orthodox Jewish school boys from the Bobov school watching the Lag B’Omer bonfire in the school playground. Lag B’Omer is the holiday celebrating the thirty-third day of the (counting of the) Omer. Jews celebrate it as the day when the plague that killed 24,000 people ended in the holy land (according to the Babylonian Talmud). Other sources say the plague was actually the Roman occupation and the 24,000 people died in the second Jewish – Roman war  (Bar Kokhba revolt of the first century).  Bonfires (used as signals in wartime) are symbolically lit to commemorate the holiday of Lag’B’Omer.
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  • Star of David on a rainbow flag. Pride London gay and lesbian parade through central London. Pride London (founded in 2004) aims to promote equality and diversity through all of its campaigns. The Pride London festival uses theatre, music, debate, art and entertainment to raise awareness of discrimination and the issues and difficulties affecting the lives of lesbian gay bisexual and transgender people around the world. The annual parade is an explosion of Pride in the heart of the capital, attracting over 1,000,000 people in a celebration of diversity.
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  • Pro-Palestinian protesters demonstration against the military offensive in Gaza by Israel on 7th April 2018 in London, England, United Kingdom. Demonstrators carried placards and banners calling to Free Palestine and to End the seige on Gaza at the demo called: Protest for Gaza: Stop the Killing. Orthodox Jewish community protest in support of the rights of the Palestinian people and to end the more than 60 years of Israeli occupation. Their anti Zionist message requests that the media and world leaders have a more honest and open policy on the Palestinian issue, highlighting the Gazan blockade as subhuman and to live in peace and harmony just as in the past before Zionism came into being.
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  • Pro-Palestinian protesters demonstration against the military offensive in Gaza by Israel on 7th April 2018 in London, England, United Kingdom. Demonstrators carried placards and banners calling to Free Palestine and to End the seige on Gaza at the demo called: Protest for Gaza: Stop the Killing. Orthodox Jewish community protest in support of the rights of the Palestinian people and to end the more than 60 years of Israeli occupation. Their anti Zionist message requests that the media and world leaders have a more honest and open policy on the Palestinian issue, highlighting the Gazan blockade as subhuman and to live in peace and harmony just as in the past before Zionism came into being.
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  • A Rabbi helps the Bride to sign the Wedding record at a wedding in Jerusalem, Israel
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  • Yehuda Gordon, a Jerusalem based Rabbi that is charged by the Rabbinical courts to trace errant husbands that refuse to divorce their wives and so deny them access to the their rights under Jewish law. Gordon is seen here researching a husband at the Rabbinical court
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  • 13 year-old Adam leader celebrates his Bar Mitzvah by holding a lavish party in Borehamwood in north London, England. Paid for by his parents, the celebration took place in a hotel off the A1 road and here Adam can be seen surrounded like a celebrity by a gaggle of teenage girl friends, one of whom is dressed in a thin-strapped dress and pendant, giggling at a joke and all enjoying the occasion. Adam looks dashing in a rented dinner jacket complete with bow-tie. He is fresh-faced and clean-cut, cutting a handsome figure much-admired by his female friends.
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  • The local Tokea (Blaster) Rabbi Kahn blowing a Shofar for Rosh Hashanah to mark the start of the new year in Stamford Hill. The Shofar is usually made from a Rams horn and is one of the earliest wind instruments known to man. It is considered one of the commandments to hear a Shofar on Rosh Hashanah.
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  • A member of the Neturei Karta demonstrates how he was punched to a community police officer as they were stopped trying to burn the Israeli flag in Stamford Hill, London during the festival of Purim. The Neturiei Karta oppose Zionism and believe that Jews are forbidden to have their own state until the coming of the Messiah.
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  • Hatzola are a voluntary medical emergency service that provides care to the Orthodox Jewish community of North London.  Here 3 of their volunteers assist an Orthodox Jewish patient wearing an oxygen mask into the back of their ambulance.
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  • Hatzola are a voluntary medical emergency service that provides care to the Orthodox Jewish community of North London.  Here 3 of their volunteers provide care with oxygen to an Orthodox Jewish patient in the back of their ambulance.
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  • The Mohel washes his hands before the circumcision ceremony begins. On the 8th day after birth a Brit Milah (Circumcision) is performed on a Jewish baby boy (unless there is a medical reason to delay it). The ceremony takes place in the synagogue and the man who carries out the skin removal is know as a Mohel and is medically trained, the boy is also given his Hebrew and/or English names.
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  • Men praying and casting away their sins into the river Lea, Hackney, London for Tashlich. Tashlich is a Jewish practice that is performed during Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year). Men and women gather near a large body of flowing water and symbolically ‘cast off’ the previous year’s sins by throwing pieces of bread into the water while reading a prayer (the last verses from the prophet Micah).
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  • Rabbi Tzvi Elimelech Halberstam (behind the microphone). Rebbe and current spiritual leader of the Klausenberger dynasty speaking to his followers at the Viznitz Synagogue (their own is too small) in Stamford Hill, London.
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  • During the Jewish festival of Purim a group of Orthodox Jewish boys from the Viznitz Yeshiva (school) in fancy dress visit local businessmen to collect money for their school. Some of the businessman that they visit read a prayer to the group. The young boys drink alcohol at every house they visit during the day.
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  • Tashlikh is a Jewish practice that is performed during Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year). Men and women gather near a large body of flowing water and symbolically ‘cast off’ the previous year’s sins by throwing pieces of bread into the water while reading a prayer (the last verses from the prophet Micah). In Stamford Hill the nearest flowing water is river Lea, Hackney, London.
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  • Mr Rudzinski, a holocaust survivor living in Stamford Hill who is very open about what life was like when he was captured by the Nazi’s as a young boy in Germany.
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  • The bride (Kallah) assisted by 2 escorts holding candles circles her groom 7 times under the chuppah. There are many reasons for this, Kabbalah (the Jewish tradition of mysticism) says that women, representing the earth, re-enact seven revolutions that the earth made during the seven days of creation.
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  • The veiling (bedeken) is when the groom veils his bride immediately before the wedding ceremony. It’s a way for him to verify he is marring the right bride and is often preceded by singing and dancing around the bride who sits on a throne like chair. Once she is veiled the ceremony can take place.
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  • Orthodox Jewish men dance to music in a driveway of a wealthy man of the area whilst waiting to gain access to the household. It is stated that the men should drink so much alcohol that they don’t know the difference between right and wrong.  Purim is one of the most entertaining Jewish holidays.  It commemorates the time when the Jewish people living in Persia were saved from extermination from a massacre by Haman. Due to the courage of a young Jewish woman called Esther. It is customary to hold carnival-like celebrations on Purim, and for groups of men to go round on the back of lorries and in open top buses visiting local wealthy men, collecting for their charity. It is stated that the men should drink so much alcohol that they don’t know the difference between right and wrong.
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  • At the end of the Purim festival and 18 minutes before the beginning of Shabbat the candles are lit in the synagogue and everyone puts their hands toward the main candle to accept the sanctity of Shabbat. Shabbat is the Jewish day of rest and lasts from sunset on Friday night until 1 hour after sunset on Saturday. No work is allowed at all during Shabbat.
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  • Mr Leibowitz and his 3 sons reading (learning) the Torah inside their sukkah during Sukkot, the feast of Tabernacles. The holiday commemorates the forty-year period during which the children of Israel were wandering in the desert. In honor of the children of Israel in the wilderness, men dwell in temporary shelters. This shelter is called a sukkah it has at least three sides and a partially open roof covered with greenery.
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  • Women and children struggle to get vouchers for free kosher ice cream, the only kosher ice cream van in the UK visiting a community event in Allen Gardens, Stamford Hill to celebrate Lag B’Omer. Lag B’Omer is the holiday celebrating the thirty-third day of the (counting of the) Omer. Jews celebrate it as the day when the plague that killed 24,000 people ended in the holy land (according to the Babylonian Talmud). Other sources say the plague was actually the Roman occupation and the 24,000 people died in the second Jewish – Roman war  (Bar Kokhba revolt of the first century).  Bonfires (used as signals in wartime) are symbolically lit to commemorate the holiday of Lag’B’Omer.
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  • An Orthodox Jewish boy climbing on a fence in front of a block of flats with open windows in Reizel close an Agudas Israel Housing Association development for low-income Orthodox Jewish families in Stamford Hill, London.
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  • In a Stamford Hill Skwer synagogue Jewish men watch the Skwer Rebbe visiting from New York carry the new Sefer Torah (five books of Moses) into the Shul. Hundreds of men and women gathered to see the event take place.
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  • A 13 year-old Orthodox Jewish boy sits waiting for his Bar Mitzvah to begin in a Parces hall, Stamford Hill. The Bar Mitzvah signals the coming of age for a young Jewish boy, they become responsible to observe the commandments of the Torah. It coincides with physical puberty and they begin to participate in all areas of Jewish life. A Bar mitzvah ceremony is a big occasion, the young boy reads a section from the Torah to his family and friends and a mitzvah meal is consumed.
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  • Pro-Palestinian protesters demonstration against the military offensive in Gaza by Israel on 7th April 2018 in London, England, United Kingdom. Demonstrators carried placards and banners calling to Free Palestine and to End the seige on Gaza at the demo called: Protest for Gaza: Stop the Killing. Orthodox Jewish community protest in support of the rights of the Palestinian people and to end the more than 60 years of Israeli occupation. Their anti Zionist message requests that the media and world leaders have a more honest and open policy on the Palestinian issue, highlighting the Gazan blockade as subhuman and to live in peace and harmony just as in the past before Zionism came into being.
    20180407_free palestine demo_005.jpg
  • A Rabbinical Court sits in Jerusalem deliberating over a divorce case
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  • Details of tourist kitch on a stall at the Mahane Yahuda Market, Jerusalem, Israel
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  • A 13 year-old Orthodox Jewish boy sits waiting for his Bar Mitzvah to begin in a Parces hall, Stamford Hill. The Bar Mitzvah signals the coming of age for a young Jewish boy, they become responsible to observe the commandments of the Torah. It coincides with physical puberty and they begin to participate in all areas of Jewish life. A Bar mitzvah ceremony is a big occasion, the young boy reads a section from the Torah to his family and friends and a mitzvah meal is consumed.
    07-weiss_9053.jpg
  • Shabbat is the weekly day of rest for Orthodox Jews; it lasts from sunset on a Friday to 1 hour past sunset on Saturday. The women of the household mark the beginning the Sabbath by lighting the candles and saying prayers. All food for the 3 meals of Shabbat are prepared in advance as no work can be done on Shabbat.
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  • A young boy dressed as a Purim Rabbi in white robes and a white tall furry hat crosses Dunsmure road by a local chemist during the festival of Purim.
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  • A group of Orthodox Jewish boys in fancy dress collecting for charity visit a wealthy man of the area; some houses are so popular they have a bouncer on the front door. Purim is one of the most entertaining Jewish holidays.  It commemorates the time when the Jewish people living in Persia were saved from extermination from a massacre by Haman. Due to the courage of a young Jewish woman called Esther. It is customary to hold carnival-like celebrations on Purim, and for groups of men to go round on the back of lorries and in open top buses visiting local wealthy men, collecting for their charity.
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  • Purim is one of the most entertaining Jewish holidays.  It commemorates the time when the Jewish people living in Persia were saved from extermination from a massacre by Haman. Due to the courage of a young Jewish woman called Esther. It is customary to hold carnival-like celebrations on Purim, and for groups of men to go round on the back of lorries and in open top buses visiting local wealthy men, collecting for their charity. It is stated that the men should drink so much alcohol that they don’t know the difference between right and wrong.
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  • Young Orthodox Jewish boys in fancy dress collecting for their school (Yeshiva) wait in anticipation of the amount they will receive during a visit to the house of Mr Glick, a well off man of the area. Purim is one of the most entertaining Jewish holidays.  It commemorates the time when the Jewish people living in Persia were saved from extermination from a massacre by Haman. Due to the courage of a young Jewish woman called Esther. It is customary to hold carnival-like celebrations on Purim, and for groups of men to go round on the back of lorries and in open top buses visiting local wealthy men, collecting for their charity. It is stated that the men should drink so much alcohol that they don’t know the difference between right and wrong.
    04-purim_5733.jpg
  • Women and children struggle to get vouchers for free kosher ice cream, the only kosher ice cream van in the UK visiting a community event in Allen Gardens, Stamford Hill to celebrate Lag B’Omer. Lag B’Omer is the holiday celebrating the thirty-third day of the (counting of the) Omer. Jews celebrate it as the day when the plague that killed 24,000 people ended in the holy land (according to the Babylonian Talmud). Other sources say the plague was actually the Roman occupation and the 24,000 people died in the second Jewish – Roman war  (Bar Kokhba revolt of the first century).  Bonfires (used as signals in wartime) are symbolically lit to commemorate the holiday of Lag’B’Omer.
    04-hill_1542.jpg
  • Orthodox Jewish children playing in the street of Reizel close an Agudas Israel Housing Association development for low-income Orthodox Jewish families in Stamford Hill, London.  All the children play regularly together, having bike races and playing football. There is a real sense of a community, some mothers are out with their younger children keeping an eye on goings on.
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  • Young men tour the streets wearing fancy dress in an open top bus, drinking and dancing while going round visiting local wealthy men, collecting for their school charity during Purim. Purim is one of the most entertaining Jewish holidays.  It commemorates the time when the Jewish people living in Persia were saved from extermination from a massacre by Haman. Due to the courage of a young Jewish woman called Esther. It is customary to hold carnival-like celebrations on Purim. Normally one of the group dresses up as Haman (right, covering his face).
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  • A young Orthodox Jewish boy surrounded by hundreds of Orthodox Jewish men wearing black coats and hats. The men are gathered to see their spiritual leader who has arrived from Antwerp.
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  • Rabbi Herschel Gluck eating a takeaway meal in his Sukkah during the festival of Sukkot, the feast of Tabernacles. The holiday commemorates the forty-year period during which the children of Israel were wandering in the desert. In honor of the children of Israel in the wilderness, men dwell in temporary shelters. This shelter is called a Sukkah it has at least three sides and a partially open roof covered with greenery.
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  • Orthadox Jews heading for prayer during the Purim festival in Stanford Hill on 26th February, 2021 in London, United Kingdom. Purim is a Jewish holiday which commemorates the saving of the Jewish people from Haman, an Achaemenid Persian Empire official who was planning to kill all the Jews.A shtreimel is a fur hat worn by some Jewish men, mainly members of Hasidic Judaism, on Shabbat and Jewish holidays and other festive occasions. Men are encouraged to drink wine or any other alcoholic beverage.
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  • Television documentary film maker Desmond Wilcox (1931 – 2000) and production crew during the filming of a programme. The portrait is with members of his colleagues during a break in filming for a programme about Hampstead Heath in London. Desmond John Wilcox (21 May 1931 – 6 September 2000) was a British documentary maker at the BBC and ITV. He was producer of This Week, Man Alive, and That's Life! and married to television presenter Esther Rantzen in 1977. He died of a heart attack in Paddington, London, in 2000, aged 69 after converting to Judaism in 1992.
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  • Hundreds of Orthodox Jews gathered today (8th of April 2009) in Springfield park, Stamford Hill, to celebrate the festival of Birkat Hachama (blessing of the sun).  It is a Jewish blessing that is recited in appreciation of the Sun once every twenty-eight years, when the vernal equinox as calculated by tradition falls on a Tuesday at sundown. Jewish tradition says that when the Sun completes this cycle, it has returned to its position when the world was created. According to Judaism, the Sun has a 28 year solar cycle known as machzor gadol (מחזור גדול, "the large cycle"). A solar year is estimated as 365.25 days and the "Blessing of the Sun", being said at the beginning of this cycle, is therefore recited every 10,227 (28 times 365.25) days
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  • Hundreds of Orthodox Jews gathered today (8th of April 2009) in Springfield park, Stamford Hill, to celebrate the festival of Birkat Hachama (blessing of the sun).  It is a Jewish blessing that is recited in appreciation of the Sun once every twenty-eight years, when the vernal equinox as calculated by tradition falls on a Tuesday at sundown. Jewish tradition says that when the Sun completes this cycle, it has returned to its position when the world was created. According to Judaism, the Sun has a 28 year solar cycle known as machzor gadol (מחזור גדול, "the large cycle"). A solar year is estimated as 365.25 days and the "Blessing of the Sun", being said at the beginning of this cycle, is therefore recited every 10,227 (28 times 365.25) days
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  • Hundreds of Orthodox Jews gathered today (8th of April 2009) in Springfield park, Stamford Hill, to celebrate the festival of Birkat Hachama (blessing of the sun).  It is a Jewish blessing that is recited in appreciation of the Sun once every twenty-eight years, when the vernal equinox as calculated by tradition falls on a Tuesday at sundown. Jewish tradition says that when the Sun completes this cycle, it has returned to its position when the world was created. According to Judaism, the Sun has a 28 year solar cycle known as machzor gadol (מחזור גדול, "the large cycle"). A solar year is estimated as 365.25 days and the "Blessing of the Sun", being said at the beginning of this cycle, is therefore recited every 10,227 (28 times 365.25) days
    09-OJC-birkat-8399.jpg
  • Hundreds of Orthodox Jews gathered today (8th of April 2009) in Springfield park, Stamford Hill, to celebrate the festival of Birkat Hachama (blessing of the sun).  It is a Jewish blessing that is recited in appreciation of the Sun once every twenty-eight years, when the vernal equinox as calculated by tradition falls on a Tuesday at sundown. Jewish tradition says that when the Sun completes this cycle, it has returned to its position when the world was created. According to Judaism, the Sun has a 28 year solar cycle known as machzor gadol (מחזור גדול, "the large cycle"). A solar year is estimated as 365.25 days and the "Blessing of the Sun", being said at the beginning of this cycle, is therefore recited every 10,227 (28 times 365.25) days
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